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River Horse

Posted 16 April 2018 - 05:28 AM

That's unbelievable, I had searched the entire Interenet (some or many months ago), had found many duplicate find programs, but obviously missed this one or that folder option, very strange.

And, yes, it seems to work great, but it seems to be quite some work anyway to remove - or determine - all of the duplicate folders, does not work completely automatical (such does not work without user interaction). I want to search for them on some drives, 4, 5 TB and such,

paws

Posted 16 April 2018 - 03:02 PM

paws

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806 posts

Yes you are right, its a very powerful tool and should be well able to do the job you want, however it does need a little setting up, and as far as I'm aware there is no automated tool that will do exactly what you want without imputting the settings you require.

River Horse

Posted 17 April 2018 - 01:33 AM

River Horse

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Topic Starter

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57 posts

No, no, actually I just wanted to know in general, but...:

I want dupeGuru to search for duplicate musicfolders by content without tags (of the files). And how are the images / covers / other files handled then in such music folder (containing music albums)? Are they checked by its complete content then? May be a music/picture mode would be good, which lets search for music tags / EXIF in a single search or by content without EXIP / tags.

And, just to ensure, when this option is used

dupeGuru finds duplicate folder by the complete content of its files (by the cotent of each single file and if all the content of any file is identical with another one in the other folder its content is considered to be equal)?